John BearSupport your local school paperSupport your local school paper by John Bear (2010-08-18)Albuquerque High SchoolCrazed journalist allowed access to school children<div style="float:right; width:200px; height:192px; margin-left:8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><img border="0" alt="Print journalists do not actually look like this." width="200" height="192" src="http://alibi.com/image/pix_id/ol_1551/Print-journalists-do-not-actually-look-like-this.jpg?image_height=192&amp;image_width=200" /></div><P>I was given the opportunity to poison young minds this morning. </p><P>The first meeting of the newspaper class at Albuquerque High School met today and I came in to show them how it’s done. I brought along a colleague, Ali Patterson, a copy editor at the Albuquerque Journal, because it is important to show the neophytes that not all newspaper people are disheveled miscreants who mumble a lot and look like they haven’t slept in days. Ali calls the two extremes of journalistic types “type A” and “type B.” There doesn’t seem to be anyone in the middle between the organized A’s and everyone else.</p><P>I have spoken with a high school journalism class once before. It had six editors-in-chief. That doesn’t work. A newspaper has to have a mafia-style paramilitary command structure with a supreme commander at the top. Otherwise, nothing will get done. A newspaper is a machine and must run efficiently, even if some of us end up spinning in the gears. </p>...<br/>Full story: <A HREF="http://alibi.com/blog/s/journalism%2C+education/xy_1846/Support-your-local-school-paper.html">Support your local school paper</A>#type-0-106.635261,35.0985685800 Odelia NE
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